shift key is not auto uncapitalising

[arrowsmith11]

As title says if I want to capitalise a word I have to press shift and then press shift again to turn caps off, cannot seem to find a setting to turn this off?

[krotname]

I don't see a user setting for that behavior. The setting documented as Force Auto-Caps is under Text correction > Auto-capitalization, but that only affects automatic sentence capitalization, not what a manual Shift tap does.

From the current keyboard state code, Shift has separate states for:

• automatic shifted (AUTOMATIC_SHIFTED)
• manual shifted (MANUAL_SHIFTED)
• caps lock (SHIFT_LOCKED)

A normal tap on Shift from the base alphabet layout goes into manual shifted mode. Double-tapping Shift is what enters caps lock. So if a single Shift tap stays uppercase after typing the next letter, that looks more like a bug/state-machine issue than a missing setting.

One quick thing to check: if you are using a custom layout, make sure the Shift key is still defined as the real shift key (!code/key_shift) and not as a caps-lock/lock key. Otherwise, I would report it as a bug with the app version, Android version, active layout, and whether it happens in all text fields or only specific apps.